> What are you talking about? PCs have always had a text mode and it worked> good. So I see no reason why would it disappear! Sure, the normal video> mode may be graphical, but there are many tasks that can be done in text> mode just fine.

Why? When's the last time you saw your typical Winbloze user using atext-mode window? Heck, in my experience most of them don't even know howto *start* a DOS prompt, never mind make it full-screen in text mode!*That* is why the text mode is disappearing. Also look at the MediaGXchip, etc.

> Eh? It uses the same hardware what gfx mode.

You really *don't* know anything about PC video hardware, do you?

> Huh? When setting a mode the card doesn't give a damn about what the current> video mode is! It simply fills the registers with pre-set values in the > given order. Perhaps you were talking about software?

As Alan Cox has stated, and as I know from personal experience[1]: you cango from a known video state to a known video state, and you can go from aknown video state to an unknown (i.e., garbage) video state. You cannot,short of resetting the card (which typically takes a reboot), go from anunknown state to a known state. It simply doesn't work that way. Why? Because the people who designed the VGA video hardware were idiots (IMHO).That's why kernel-arbitrated video mode changing is needed, and that's whatKGI is. As Varg pointed out so eloquently, KGI is a leetle teeny tinypiece of GGI that needs to be in the kernel. The rest doesn't.